1788 J. Belknap Let. 10 Feb. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1877) 5th Ser. III. 18 The Antis would have had the question called much sooner, but the Feds. protracted the debates on paragraphs till they were sure of a majority.

1792 J. Jay Let. 8 Sept. in Corr. & Public Papers (1891) III. 448 It is questionable whether such operations at this moment would not furnish the Anties with materials.

1801 Spirit of Farmers' Museum 56 There Feds shall cease to charge the Antis With making Frenchmen rule brave yankees.

1890 P. L. Ford Origin, Purpose & Result Harrisburg Convent. 8 Only a trifle over one-sixth of those qualified, voted on the candidates for the convention, of whom the Federalists elected forty-six and the Antis twenty-three.

1922 E. M. Tappan Story our Constit. viii. 125 In Albany, the Federalists rang the bells and fired ten guns. The Antis retorted with thirteen guns and burned a copy of the Constitution.

2003 G. Vidal Inventing Nation 23 Hamilton..led the debate for the Feds. Melancton Smith for the Antis.

1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Authors I. 114 The world was to be divided into two parts, the Warburtonians and the Antis.

1826 M. Edgeworth Thoughts on Bores in Janus 96 I invite every true friend of literature and of good conversation, blues and antis, to contribute their assistance.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 June 1 The ‘antis’ have no option but to take it up.

1907 W. Buckley Cambia Carty 45 Sure me father is a Parnellite an' I'm an anti.

1963 Times 17 May 15/4 Our times are fertile of protestation; anything from new roads or buildings to the methods of national defence calls forth the campaigning of the ‘antis’.

2003 Kent on Sunday 6 July 24/1 The battle over fox hunting has even been explained as symptomatic of the class conflict between the pro-hunt country folk and the townie antis.

1808 Obstetric Ejaculations on Cow Pock viii. 20 The cow-pock itch has annoyed the genuine Vaccinators not a little, and if we may believe the anti-men.., not without some foundation.

1829 Amer. Masonick Rec. 19 Sept. 270/2 The anti party..is entirely too impotent to create any fear or jealousy on the part of the masonick fraternity.

1855 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes (ed. 3) xix. 468 The ‘Anti’ journals joined with them in coarse personalities.

1916 O. H. Prouty Fifth Wheel 131 ‘On the fence, Kidlet,’ Edith had once remonstrated to Ruth, ‘that's stupid!’ Edith herself was strongly anti.

1969 Listener 3 July 8/2 Having read in the papers an awful lot about..the anti feeling there was in Aberystwyth and in Wales.

2009 T. Southwick Nanny & Me 72 You're so anti that even your career choice is all about ripping relationships to pieces.

1817 Brit. Critic May 520 The principles of the work..are strictly anti-jacobin, anti-revolutionary; in short, anti- the dogmas and speculations of all that motley and indefinable mass of people..who..are united in the common bond of enmity to existing institutions.

1839 G. Combe Lect. Phrenology 132 His work is no more anti-phrenological than it is anti-geological or anti any thing else.

1872 Eccl. Observer June 203 I would like to have a society not exactly anti the State Church, but anti that Church which is a State Church now.

1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. xi. 232 America and the Americans were understood to be anti-everything that was dear to Conservatives.

1922 Notes & Queries 28 Jan. 72/1 This [pamphlet] is anti the ‘piece of mechanism’ and pro the hidden ‘director of the game’.

1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 299 ‘You were violently anti all that, weren't you?’ ‘You make me sound like a Hyde Park tub-thumper.’

1986 C. Bennett in P. McGilligan Backstory 38 It had to do with World War II—we were anti-Nazi at the time, naturally. But, strangely enough, a lot of it was anti- our own ally—Communist Russia.

2002 S. Chan Liberalism, Democracy & Devel. vi. 191 I have..explored the existing arguments pro and anti the democracy–development link.